Germany finally gets an uncensored Half-Life

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After 19 years, German's can now see what the world already knew about: there is blood and gore in Half Life!

Yes, the German government believed in protecting young impressionable minds by censoring all the naughty bits in Half Life. Enemy soldiers turned into robots, missing gibs, aliens disappearing into the aether and worse offense of all was scientists and barney's giving a disapproving gesture when you tried to kill them for loot and/or pleasure.

Here is the entry from Rock Paper Shotgun:

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Half-Life's entry in the German index of censored games has been "prematurely" removed, reports Schnittberichte, meaning that "it is now possible for the publisher to release the uncensored versions again in Germany officially." Whether Valve ultimately choose to do so remains to be seen, although I suspect there's a reasonable chunk of free money in it for them if they do.